Affiliate disclosure
Some of our links earn us a commission when you book through them. This page says who pays us, how much, and how we choose what to link.
The short version
Some links on this site are affiliate links, and they are labeled where they appear. If you book through one, we earn a commission out of what you already pay: Viator pays it for tours and activities, Booking.com for places to stay and rental cars, Expedia for places to stay, and Vrbo for whole homes to rent; on FareHarbor, where you book some tours, activities and rentals with the operator itself, the operator pays it. It costs you nothing extra, and it is the only way this site earns anything.
This site has carried affiliate links since it launched in September 2026. They have been labeled from the first one.
Every block of booking links on a page opens with a short version of this. In full:
How we make money: some links on this site are affiliate links. If you book through one, we earn a small commission out of what you already pay: the platform pays it, or on FareHarbor, the operator whose trip it is. Your price is the same. We take no placement fees, so no operator or property can pay to appear or rank higher on any page, and no trip is chosen because it pays better.
Who pays us
- Viator — guided tours and activities. Roughly 8% of a completed booking, paid after the trip actually happens.
- FareHarbor — tours, activities and rentals from operators that use FareHarbor as their booking system and have joined its affiliate network. On a FareHarbor link the booking you make, on fareharbor.com, is the operator's own. The operator pays our commission, 15% of the activity price before taxes and fees, out of that price, so yours is the same.
- Booking.com, through the CJ Affiliate network — hotels, inns and other places to stay, and rental cars. A share of the booking, from 4% on stays and 3.8% on car rentals under the program's terms, earned only once the stay or the rental is completed.
- Expedia, through the CJ Affiliate network — hotels and other places to stay. A share of the booking, 4% on hotels and 2% on vacation rentals under the program's terms, earned only once the stay is over and Expedia has verified the booking.
- Vrbo, also through CJ — whole homes to rent in Hurricane and Kanab: houses, cabins and apartments. 2% of the rental amount before taxes and fees under the program's terms, earned only once the owner has accepted the booking and the stay is over.
That is the entire list. No gear sales, no restaurants. If another one is added, it appears here first.
Our Booking.com and Expedia links go to the platform's own list of places to stay in an area, or to a property a page names for the reason it gives. Our Vrbo links go to Vrbo's own list of vacation homes in a town. None of them is a ranking: we do not rate hotels or homes, and no property can pay to be named.
How we choose what to link
We link the trip we would book ourselves, and only after opening the listing and reading it. Price, availability, cancellation terms and the operating company all come off the product page on the date shown, not from memory and not from a press release.
That check is the whole job, and on 19 September 2026 an outside audit showed it had not been done properly: three of our four Zion listings named the wrong operating company — the name of a different local company rather than the firm actually running the trip. Our guided Narrows listing also said Narrows gear was included, when the listing then sold it as a $60 add-on. Every one was re-read off its product page and corrected the same day, and all four were read again in a browser on 21 September. That is a bad record, and rounding it down would be the wrong instinct on the one page whose only asset is candor: a recommendation you cannot act on is worth nothing to you and nothing to us.
No trip is on a page because it pays better. Where two trips do the same thing, the one we link is the one we would put a friend on. Where two platforms sell the same private trip, the link goes to the one that pays us more, and its card shows the price and fees you pay there.
Where a page names its pick, the card says so. A pick is the trip that page's own comparison recommends, and no operator can pay for one.
What we don't do
- We take no placement fees. No operator can pay to appear on this site or to rank higher on a page. If that ever changes, this page changes first.
- We don't pad a page with links. Plenty of Zion businesses — one of the two Narrows outfitters, the in-park horseback rides, some shuttles — aren't bookable through any platform we work with. We still name them where they're the right answer, because a guide that only mentions what it can sell you isn't a guide.
- We don't publish discount codes we haven't verified.
Prices and availability
Prices shown are what we saw on the date noted on each page. Operators change them and seasons change them. Always confirm the price on the booking page before you commit.
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